sad - Story 120650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, casting long shadows across the floor. Robert felt as though the light had been dimmed inside him. He sat at his desk, and re-read the notice. It didn't seem real. It felt like a nightmare.

He looked at his hands, watching them tremble slightly. He didn't want to leave. He had hoped for retirement here. He had built up savings and pension plans with this place in mind. Now he felt as if his life were a house of cards that had suddenly collapsed.

He closed his eyes for a moment, and let the quiet wash over him. Then he opened his eyes again and, slowly, began to pack his belongings.

Emotion: sad

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.436
`😔`	0.405
`S`	0.384
`无法`	0.341
`L`	0.337

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.749
`la`	-0.614
`l`	-0.471
`/`	-0.350
`!`	-0.322